Tokyo

A Cultural History

By:

Stephen Mansfield

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Cityscapes (Hardcover)

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Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages. In this addition to Oxford's Cityscapes series, Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel, when it was known as Edo, through the rise of a merchant class who transformed the town into a center for art, to the emergence of modern Tokyo. Mansfield traces a city of print masters, Kabuki theater, novelists and great architecture, which has overcome many disasters, from the 1923 earthquake through the fire-bombings of World War II to the 1995 subway gas attacks.

Release date Australia

June 1st, 2009

Author

Stephen Mansfield

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

Illustrations; Frontispiece; Maps

Pages

288

Series

Cityscapes (Hardcover)

Dimensions

142x211x23

ISBN-13

9780195386349

Product ID

3510929

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